LittleBigPlanet is one of
those games that's a tool for creatively expressing
yourself, and we've seen a few really cool Capcom
flavored stages from fans. Above is one I just recently
saw in our creative
section, done by Availation. Above is his
level entitled "Proto Man's Rescue." This is a prelude to
his level, "Mega Man's Escape," which you can find in his
blog. Stop over to
hisblogand see the vids,
and if you have a PS3 'n LBP go try out his
stages!
I'm always
looking for the cool stuff you guys do, fan art, cosplay,
music, anything Capcom related. If you have any cool
stuff like that, send it my way via PM. I may even
spotlight you for it. =)
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVvdZ4Dac0I/AAAAAAAAA-M/HFZZOWQbZKQ/s1600-h/RockR20a.png"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVvdZ4Dac0I/AAAAAAAAA-M/HFZZOWQbZKQ/s320/RockR20a.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286062024262579010" border="0" //aAs the year comes to a close, let us take a moment to reflect upon the Rockman news stories that made 2008 and year we will never forget.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"March 2008:/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/03/ryuusei-no-rockman-tribe-off-air.html"-Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe-Off Air!/abr /RnR Tribe's cancellation from Japanese air waves took many of us by surprise. The show's cancellation marked an end to Rockman's six year animated streak on TV Tokyo. A sad day indeed.br /br /-a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/03/rockman-rockman-selling-like-hotcakes.html"Rockman Rockman Selling Like Hotcakes?/abr /In March, span style="font-style: italic;"Rockman Rockman/span saw a sudden surge in sales, two years after its original release. Sales were so high that it outsold the highly anticipated span style="font-style: italic;"Devil May Cry 4/span. The streak didn't last for more than a few weeks however, for a game that was considered a commercial failure, this was great news.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"April 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/04/rumor-zx-extremus-to-be-unveiled-at.html"-ZX "Extremus" To Be Revealed At CAPTIVATE '08/abr /Oh boy, this one was a doozey. a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/05/rumor-round-up-rnr3-zx3-and-more.html"Rumors of a ZX3/a were prominent throughout 2008, but out of all the rumors, span style="font-style: italic;"ZX Extremus/span truly stood out. ZXE was said to be a prequel to the ZX series, starring a young Prometheus and Pandora as they set out to find potential Rockmen to outmatch Model ZX.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"June 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/06/holy-sh1t-rockman-9-is-coming.html"-Holy Sh!t, Rockman 9 Is Coming!/abr /What more can I say? Rockman 9's announcement remains the biggest news story of 2008. Thanks to the efforts of "a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/06/rockman-9-shadow-speaks.html"The Shadow/a," PRC became span style="font-style: italic;"the/span source for Rockman 9 news-bringing in thousands of hits a day. You can check out a retrospective of The Shadow's activities a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/shadow-retrospective.html"here/a.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"August 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-nail-in-zxs-coffin-zx-blog.html"-Another Nail in ZX's Coffin: ZX Blog Closing Its Doors /abr /The closing of ZX Blog was a huge blow to all of us. Whatever hope we was left for a third ZX ended upon the blog's shutdown.br /br /span style="text-decoration: underline;"-/spana href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/08/best-promotional-item-ever-capcom-to.html"Best Promotional Item Ever: Capcom to Release E-Tank Beverage /abr /August marked the debut of the Rockman 9 E-Can beverage, a sports drink cleverly disguised in the image of an E-Can. Many lolz ensured.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"September 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/inafune-destroys-cataclysm-theory-its.html"-INAFUNE DESTROYS CATACLYSM THEORY/abr /Finally, after years upon years of speculation, Keiji Inafune put an indefinte end to the notorious "Cataclysm theory." The Cataclysm theory states that Zero, upon his completion by Dr. Wily, massacred Rockman's family (Roll, Auto, Dr. Light, etc.) to bloody pulp. When Capcom USA announced a Qamp;A session between Inafune and the fans, I jumped at the opportunity and asked him the fateful question: "Did Zero really 'kill' the family between the events of the Classic Mega Man and X series? " His reply?br /br /"span style="font-style: italic;"No, Zero did not kill them. According to the way I created him, Zero is not such a person--it is not in his profile./span"br /br /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/megaman-9-box.html"-MegaMan 9 Press Kits/abr /In honor of MM9's US release, Capcom cleverly created a series of mock MM9 NES packages. A total of 200 press kits were created and distributed to members of Capcom-Unity.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Ocotober 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/rumor-sega-vs-capcom-to-be-revealed-at.html"-RUMOR: Sega Vs. Capcom To Be Revealed At TGS/abr /This fun little rumor claimed Sega and Capcom were hard at work on a crossover game known as "span style="font-style: italic;"SEGA vs. Capcom: Great Clash Generation." /spanThe game was described as a "hybrid RPG-fighting game" set to release on the Nintendo DS in Q1 2009 with a "likely" PSP port later in the new year.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"December 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/rumor-nintendo-dream-to-reveal-secret.html"-Nintendo Dream To Reveal "Secret" Rockman Project/abr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/coro-coro-comics-teases-new-rockman.html"-Coro Coro Teases New Rockman, Holding Boss Design Contest/abr /Nintendo Dream's announcement to reveal a new Rockman project+Coro Coro's upcoming boss design contest seem to imply the coming of something new, but what? It is much too early for something along the lines of Shooting Star Rockman 4 however, we can't judge anything until the details of Coro Coro's design contest are revealed. Hopefully, a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/newest-coro-coro-coming-soon.html"we won't have to wait too long./abr /br /2008 was a great year for Rockman and I sincerely hope you all had a good '08 as well. So, here's to 2009; I eagerly look forward to what's to come.
Seth
and I were down in LA a few weeks back for a combination
Spike TV Video Game Awards attendence/G4 appearance trip.
While we were hanging with the fun crew at G4, I noticed
a group of cool robots shoved in a corner. Abbie told me
that they had originally been created for Attack of the
Show, but had been languishing alone and lonely for some
time. In an effort to make the most furious looking of
the robots feel better about himself, I added a jaunty
Street Fighter IV headband to his dome. While
this isn't as cool as giving Bungie's own Master Chief
statue some SFIV color, you have to admit that
it does set off his chasis nicely.
Are you in Vegas on January 9th, 2009?
You should be.
We're
opening the doors to at least 25 of you and a guest
(more, if space allows), so if you'll be in the
neighborhood, drop this guy a note and
come party with Capcom at Planet
Hollywood.
In
addition to thrilling finger food and drinks, we'll be
showing off a brand new Dark Void demo, Street Fighter
IV, Bionic Commando, and you can play Resident Evil 5...
on a seven-story screen. Yes, you read that
right: seven stories high.
As always, if you don't get a confirmation (or
aren't 21), don't just show up--there's a list, and if
you're not on it, scary bouncer types will beat you
within an inch of your life. Well maybe not,
but they won't let you in, which is almost as
bad.
Over
at the mighty Shoryuken,
Azrael
has posted up a nice end-of-2008 translation of the
current Street Fighter IV arcade rankings, and Daigo
is back on top with a VENGANCE:
Hit the jump for the rest
of the top 20 players, but apart from the terrifying
skills on display, what I'm most excited about is the
nice spread of characters on this list. A
fighting game is geared for greatness when, if you got
the skills, you can beat anybody, no matter what the
character matchup might be.
Also, just FYI, the point totals on this list is
truly crazy. From Azrael
himself:
To give you a frame of
reference, anyone in the 20,000's is a solid player at
least - 30-40,000's is good enough to win tournaments and
be the champ of an arcade with good comp, and 50,000 is
enough for most people to say they have one of the best
(insert character here) in the country, excepting the top
20 above of course.
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVqpPBIH2tI/AAAAAAAAA-E/LJ4_VIGS4c0/s1600-h/4910038090583.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 189px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVqpPBIH2tI/AAAAAAAAA-E/LJ4_VIGS4c0/s320/4910038090583.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285723188138334930" border="0" //aIf you're like me, you're quite eager to see the upcoming details concerning a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/coro-coro-comics-teases-new-rockman.html"span style="font-style: italic;"Coro Coro Comic/span's new boss design contest/a. If the past is any indication, the contest will give rise to an upcoming Rockman project. Thankfully, we won't have to wait too long for the contest details: According toa href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%9C%88%E5%88%8A-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-2009%E5%B9%B4-02%E6%9C%88%E5%8F%B7-%E9%9B%91%E8%AA%8C/dp/B001O5OFVK" Amazon of Japan/a, the newest issue of Coro Coro Comic is set to ship on span style="font-weight: bold;"January 1st, 2009/span. Most likely, we'll start seeing scans and information from the issue the following day.br /br /Well, I guess we have something to look forward to! Hang tight...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"UPDATE:/spanbr /It has come to my attention that Amazon of Japan has updated the release date of the issue from January 1st to span style="font-weight: bold;"January 15th, 2009.br //span
Ars
Technica has an article up about rebooting classic
franchises called "Everything Old Is New Again," and to
no one's surprise, the majority of the article focuses on
Capcom's slew of titles from the past year, including
Bionic Commando: Rearmed, 1942 and Super Street Fighter
II Turbo HD Remix. Ars Technica speaks with Capcom's
creative director Kraig Kujawa (ProTip: the "J" is
silent!) about all the goings-on this past year,
including the thought-process behind picking particular
games and/or franchises, pleasing all you hardk0r3
fanb0is and managing difficulty levels. It's an
interesting read, so
quit dilly-dallying and click on this link,
already.
Seth
and I were down in LA a few weeks back for a combination
Spike TV Video Game Awards attendence/G4 appearance trip.
While we were hanging with the fun crew at G4, I noticed
a group of cool robots shoved in a corner. Abbie told me
that they had originally been created for Attack of the
Show, but had been languishing alone and lonely for some
time. In an effort to make the most furious looking of
the robots feel better about himself, I added a jaunty
Street Fighter IV headband to his dome. While
this isn't as cool as giving Bungie's own Master Chief
statue some SFIV color, you have to admit that
it does set off his chasis nicely.
